Hi, this is David. Have you thought about starting a retail business? When you think about

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All lowercase.

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Thank you. Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast.

Today's reading was edited and adapted from Youth and Opportunity by Thomas Tapper, published in 1912.

When our tongues are tied, we cannot speak.

When our hands are tied, we cannot labor. When our feet are tied, we cannot travel. If we lived

under a tyrant who, with little warning, tied our tongue hands and feet and made us helpless,

we should rebel and fight for our freedom. And yet we live under just such a tyrant,

or rather a family of tyrants, who not only tie our tongues, hands and feet,

but our ability, perseverance, happiness, and pleasures of life.

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